Review: High School Musical

HIGH SCHOOL SUPPORTING PARTS CAN AFFORD TO TEAR UP

A Disney movie is spinning in your head when you watch a musical at the Helsinki City Theatre. The format is tight, but skilled creators take the lead in it.
Helsinki City Theatre’s High School Musical has screened a huge number of young talents: multi-talented future stars with dancing and singing skills.
There is radiance, speed and ecstasy especially in the crowd scenes and dance choreographies built by the team Bjurström and Pihlström .
To quote drama teacher Ms. Darbus (Maija-Liisa Peuhu): the performance strengthens inner faith in the future of theatre.

High School Musical is a double-barreled thing: on the one hand, it has to imitate the movies, and on the other hand, it has to try on its own.
The very best is Antti Lang in the role of the announcer of the Central Radio. The personal Sanna Pikkarainen from the gang of math freaks also breaks through.

Jukka Nylund manages to find shades for Troy Bolton. Reetta Korhonen is sweet as Gabriella Montez, but the adolescent assistant critic thinks that she is too one with the film type.
Evans’ twins, pissis Sharpay (Anna Laulumaa) and her brother Ryan (Samuel Harjanne), are yummy-yummy.

High School Musical is a Romeo and Juliet story, as is Oulu’s West Side Story. The people of Helsinki scratched the bar high.